OT: complaining about posts (cross posted)

This is hilarious. I have just read a post on RASN from someone who is upset about an ongoing multithread conversation between Mike Joy and JAlan (janal). Seems there is some discussion about who is the better, more accurate media professional. This is similar in length and depth as the current RASCAR uproar on RAS. Even includes the ancient history flames :-) The funny thing to me is that anyone would complain about topic, subject, content, or anything else posted in any newsgroup. These are all free open forums available to anyone whether subscribed or not. I really do not understand. I love to join in a good debate, that is why I love Ng's. I prefer to debate on topic and would prefer it remain without personal attack. Yes, I am human, I do make personal attacks but not on any kind of regular basis. The thing is, Why don't people just ignore what they don't want to read? Filters are easy to create, even easier (for me) is to scroll past, as I like to browse so I check out most and participate or subsequently ignore same. Just my $0.02 worth. Sean

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> This is hilarious. I have just read a post on RASN from someone who is > upset about an ongoing multithread conversation between Mike Joy and JAlan > (janal). Seems there is some discussion about who is the better, more > accurate media professional. This is similar in length and depth as the > current RASCAR uproar on RAS. Even includes the ancient history flames :-) > The funny thing to me is that anyone would complain about topic, subject, > content, or anything else posted in any newsgroup. These are all free open > forums available to anyone whether subscribed or not. > I really do not understand. I love to join in a good debate, that is why I > love Ng's. I prefer to debate on topic and would prefer it remain without > personal attack. Yes, I am human, I do make personal attacks but not on any > kind of regular basis. > The thing is, Why don't people just ignore what they don't want to read? > Filters are easy to create, even easier (for me) is to scroll past, as I > like to browse so I check out most and participate or subsequently ignore > same. > > Just my $0.02 worth. > > > Sean > >

Do you like yelling fire in the library too? ;) Or do you abide by some societal conventions during the day but prefer to support antisocial behavior to spice up your leisure hours? - Matt

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:02:54 -0400, "McWhom" <[email hidden]> wrote: >The thing is, Why don't people just ignore what they don't want to read? Some people use clients (or even servers) that don't do header-only transfers, and in those cases the client has to grab all of the messages before it can apply a filter, If you pay for your bandwidth you're basically wasting money everytime another jankfest breaks out. Regardless of that, I don't see what business you have telling people whether or not they can express an opinion, especially when you're saying people can post whatever they want to. That doesn't make much sense to me. Jason

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:17:13 GMT, [email hidden] (jason moyer) wrote: >Some people use clients (or even servers) that don't do header-only >transfers, and in those cases the client has to grab all of the >messages before it can apply a filter, Thats their problem then. Why should the rest of us be censored because they are clueless, or too tight to afford the extra 5 seconds it takes to download the messages. -- Andrew

Jason, I think he isn' trying to patronise, he's rather wondering why _others_ are trying to patronise. Achim "jason moyer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... ... > Regardless of that, I don't see what business you have telling people > whether or not they can express an opinion, especially when you're > saying people can post whatever they want to...

"McWhom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > This is hilarious. I have just read a post on RASN from someone who is > upset about an ongoing multithread conversation between Mike Joy and JAlan > (janal). Seems there is some discussion about who is the better, more > accurate media professional. This is similar in length and depth as the > current RASCAR uproar on RAS. Even includes the ancient history flames:-) > The funny thing to me is that anyone would complain about topic, subject, > content, or anything else posted in any newsgroup. These are all freeopen > forums available to anyone whether subscribed or not. > I really do not understand. I love to join in a good debate, that is whyI > love Ng's. I prefer to debate on topic and would prefer it remain without > personal attack. Yes, I am human, I do make personal attacks but not onany

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> kind of regular basis. > The thing is, Why don't people just ignore what they don't want to read? > Filters are easy to create, even easier (for me) is to scroll past, as I > like to browse so I check out most and participate or subsequently ignore > same. > > Just my $0.02 worth. > > > Sean > >

Well, not to flame here or to create any undue hardship, but when I read your subject header I thought that here we'd have some interesting and new ideas on the subject. I was mistaken. You seem to reiterate the same basic stuff: 1. The forums are open 2. Why not just filter topics So be it. Mostly all the newsgroups typically go through a phase of unwieldiness and then return to topic. It's common and not at all bothersome. Alanb

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:18:05 +0100, aep@nospam writeme.com wrote: >Thats their problem then. Why should the rest of us be censored >because they are clueless, or too tight to afford the extra 5 seconds >it takes to download the messages. Er.... because they don't have a choice? Jason